Late last month we highlighted the US Department of Defense’s new “Cyber Strategy.” In a new directive, the Pentagon outlined the circumstances it says may warrant the deployment of cyberweapons and, taking things a step further, indicated that the use of cyberattacks as offensive weapons wasn’t out of the question. Here’s how the DoD sums up its cyber mission:
As we noted at the time, the countries named as potential cyber adversaries come as no surprise:
Unsurprisingly, the list of cyber adversaries is indistinguishable from what might fairly be called Washington’s “usual suspects.” The villains are: Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. In fact, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says the Pentagon was recently the target of a Russian “cyber intrusion” which he claims was quickly detected by a government “crack team.”
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